Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She threw the ball across the lawn and the cat bounded after it over the frosted grass , the muscles rippling under the black sheen of his coat . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , ’ he says , then smashes the ball off the 15th tee , up over the hill and goes running after it down the other side . |
| 3 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 4 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 5 | The alternative is to scare off the enemy and this is done by inflating the body and raising the rear end of it towards the approaching assailant . |
| 6 | Central to those ideals had been — at least since 1922 when Tawney published his Secondary Education for All — the extension of secondary schooling ( although , less precisely , not all of it of the grammar-school variety ) to the whole of the population . |
| 7 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |
| 8 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 9 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 10 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 11 | The answer to that question , and the implications of it for the British polity of the 1980s , will form the basis of the final chapter . |
| 12 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 13 | In short , it may be illuminating to start with the damage and work back through the cause of it to the possible duty which may have been broken . |
| 14 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 15 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 16 | Then , bracing herself , she strode to the top of the staircase and stood gazing down the wide , sweeping curve of it to the imposing hallway and the big front door . |
| 17 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 18 | Sift the flour and ground rice together and add one third of it to the creamed mixture . |
| 19 | When an order has been made , the district judge sends a copy of it to the Senior Master of the Supreme Court , Queen 's Bench Division , for transmission to the Registrar of the European Court . |
| 20 | A. The Authority delegates to governors of primary and secondary schools oversight of the curriculum , and control of it to the head teacher in consultation with his staff … |
| 21 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
| 22 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 23 | They both took lookout positions on opposite sides of the roof , and although Charlie could still hear the sound of the battle , he was quite unable to make out who was getting the better of it on the other side of the forest . |
| 24 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 25 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 26 | Over a quarter of a century , most of it on the front bench . |
| 27 | Did you catch any of it on the local telly ? ’ |
| 28 | In keeping with the reassessment of Hungarian history under way since the beginning of 1989 , a resolution was passed on May 15 , 1990 , restoring citizenship ( in some cases posthumously ) to people deprived of it during the political repression between the late 1940s and the early 1960s . |
| 29 | Their sunshine tour , some of it aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia , will take in eight countries — Anguilla , Dominica , Guyana , Belize , the Cayman Islands , Jamaica , the Bahamas and Bermuda . |
| 30 | Each stance is capable of performing what is required of it in the right context . |